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The Eagle of the Ninth, published in 1954, was the first of Sutcliff's novels about a Roman family in Britain and their descendants. Marcus Flavius Aquila, aged eighteen, has asked for and been given a posting in England circa AD 126. He is eager to find out where and why his own father disappeared in AD 117 with an entire legion and its bronze ... more »and silver Eagle, while trying to put down a rebellion among the northern tribes.« less